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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Ain't Modern Science Wonderful

No sooner had I posted how much I missed the
wonderful smell of “burning leaves” in the fall than “voila”…I learn that there
is a perfume called BURNING LEAVES.

Is modern science amazing…or what!

Now, it may be a stretch to call it modern science,
but there’s a guy named Christopher (don’t call him Chris!) who for $100 bucks
will sell you a bottle of that once aromatic feature of nature’s most colorful
season of the year.

There are hundreds of aroma deprived fans who swear
that Chris, I mean Christopher, is a genius and his perfumes smell like exactly
what is written on the bottle!

His last name is Brosius, and his shop (I mean
Gallery) is on a street next to New York’s East River.The sign, just outside the door reads, CB. The
official name of his company is CB I HATE PERFUME GALLERY.

He says he has a strong sensitivity to certain
aromachemicals, like musk. “The aldehydes in Chanel No. 5 make me puke.” Maybe
that how he came up with his company’s name.

You’ve probably guessed by now that Brosius marches
to a different drummer but he IS a perfumer!And, they say, a very good one.

In an article in INTELLIGENT LIFE, Jessica Gallucci
writes,

Christopher started crafting
perfumes as an assistant at Kiehl's in the late 1980s. He soon launched his own
fragrance range, Demeter, which became popular at big-name American retailers
such as Urban Outfitters and Sephora. In 2000, his Snow perfume won two
Fragrance Foundation ("FiFi") awards. But a rift grew between
Christopher and his backers, and the company was acquired by Freedom Marketing
Group in 2002. The following year, 70 of Christopher's compositions for Demeter
became the first perfumes ever to be featured in the Cooper Hewitt museum's
triennial design exhibition.

Some of the intoxicating scents featured
in the gallery are Inner Tube, Rubber
Cement Wet Pavement, Roast Beef and “In
the Library."

But the scent that got my attention
is the one Christopher calls either "Coppertone 1967 " or "North Atlantic. "The base of the
scent contains a bit of Wet Sand, Seashell, Driftwood and just a hint of
Boardwalk."

Now, I think with a little bit of “tweaking”
we could help CB with that fragrance. Perhaps add just a whiff of "Evening in Paris" and we could name it, “Myrtle Beach
1953.”

Ozymandias

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

Keep on Tooting

WISDOM FROM STEVE JOBS

Your Time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

-Steve Jobs

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